George Henry Boker

George Henry Boker

George Henry Boker (October 6, 1823 – January 2, 1890) was an American poet, playwright, and diplomat.

Quotes

• Lovers are
  Like walking ghosts, they always haunt the spot
  Of their misdeeds.
  • Francesca da Rimini (1853), Act V, scene II, in Plays and Poems (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1856), Vol. I, p. 462.

• Love is that orbit of the restless soul
  Whose circle grazes the confines of space,
  Bounding within the limits of its race
  Utmost extremes.
  • Sonnet: "Love is that orbit", line 1, in Plays and Poems (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1856), Vol. II, p. 400.

• "Freedom!" their battle-cry,—
  "Freedom! or leave to die!"
  • "The Black Regiment", stanza 5, in Poems of the War (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1864), p. 101.

• Fold him in his country's stars,
  Roll the drum and fire the volley!
  What to him are all our wars,
  What but death bemocking folly?
  • "Dirge for a Soldier (in Memory of General Philip Kearny)", stanza 3, in Poems of the War (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1864), p. 169.

External links

• Works by George Henry Boker at Project Gutenberg